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Inexperienced. [Obs.]

One not a friend; an enemy. [R.] Carlyle.

Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.

Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.

The state or quality of being unfriendly; unfriendliness; enmity. An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. [R.] Milton.

Not capable of being reprieved. Shak.

Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent; not tiring or wearying; indefatigable. -- Un*wea"ried*ly, adv. -- Un*wea"ried*ness, n.

To uncover. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.

An avant-courier. See Van-courier. [Obs.] Holland.

Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery. -- Va"ried*ly, adv. The varied fields of science, ever new. Cowper.

ify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone. Woodward.

Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope.

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species. Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and what as varietal. Darwin.

A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

g various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. For earth this variety from heaven. Milton. There is a variety in the tempers of good men. Atterbury…

A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.